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serving it up The latest styles from Toby Tucker Tennis. P roduced Elizabeth Meigher and photographed by Katie Fisher

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from inside privet hedges A new book provides a fresh look at the Hamptons landscape. by Grace Whitney

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A collection of Bert Morgan’s photographs, courtesy of the Southampton Historical Society. by Georgina Schaeffer the east enders

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local knowledge Two locals bring you the very best of shopping in Southampton. by Cornelia Ercklentz and Georgina Schaeffer

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the rugged and rustic life Nestled in the Adirondack Mountains is the retreat that became the wild playground of the American elite. by Grace Whitney Bidding for mustangs Discovering the healing power of horses at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center. by Anne Vincent

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Our guide to the best benefits and balls for the month of July.

Remembering the world-champion chess player Bobby Fischer.

A look at the Greek debt crisis.

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Francesca Beale and her new theater at Lincoln Center.

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Our favorite fashions.

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Inside the new developments at the Museum of the City of New York.

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From left: With Alix Leonard O'Meara in the early 1980s; the Sayre Barn, a pre-Revolutionary building, is a current restoration project of the Southampton Historical Society.

the photo above is of me with one of my best friends on the beach in Southampton. I picked it for this letter because, to me, it represents what summer means to everyone: time spent with family and friends, long days filled with sunshine and sports—in a single word, vacation.

Summer seems to me a universal experience, whether you spend it at a Northeastern resort, on the Great Lakes of Michigan, at a dude ranch out West, in a chic European hotel, or right here in town. Traditionally, our Summer Issue has highlighted a single summer community: the Adirondacks, Millbrook, Newport, and so on. Last year, we departed from this format and reported on a variety of summer locations, and this year, we continue in this vein, with a slight focus on Long Island.

Growing up in Southampton, I’ve seen a great deal of change in the town. I too lament the giant McMansions, the traffic on the LIE, the exasperation of trying to get groceries...the list goes on. This story, however, is not new; it’s existed since the 19th century when the first “summer colonists” arrived to the East End of Long Island. But in the end, these hamlets remain a charmed and idyllic place. For this issue, I spent many hours in the Southampton Historical Museum combing through their Bert Morgan archives with their generous staff to produce the photo portfolio “The East-Enders.” I recommend visiting the museum—you will learn a lot about Southampton and its history (the common refrain of museum visitors is: “I never knew this was here!” ).

Last summer, Daniel Cappello wrote a fantastic piece comparing Martha’s Vineyard to Nantucket. The story had such a great response, we offer a follow-up piece on “The Hamptons.” From Southampton to Montauk, Cappello takes a nuanced approach to each town. Grace Whitney writes a profile on the new book Hamptons Gardens, which brings you behind the famous privet hedges. Cornelia Ercklentz and I collaborated for a shopping story and offer our selection of the best of old and new stores, with some nuggets of Southampton lore and information we hope you enjoy. Finally, on the back page, we visit two landmark roadside sculptures, Stargazer and The Big Duck.

But before we get too Southampton-centric, Anne Vincent takes us out west to an extraordinary charitable mustang auction. We journey to

the great camps of the Adirondacks and to the famed Il Pellicano hotel in Italy. Finally, there is our cover photoshoot right here in Central Park.

Five girlfriends don colorful outfits by veteran editor turned designer, Toby Tucker Peters, in “Serving It Up.” On set that day were her two adorable boys, Tucker and Jack, who grace our cover. It, too, seems to sum up summer. As I think about it, the season of summer really belongs to children. Perhaps that is why we all love it so much—it brings out the kid in each of us, sandy bathing suits and all. It’s the season of cannon-balls into pools and splinters from running on dry plank wood. It’s the season of sandy feet and wet dogs. It’s the season where afternoons stretch out like the sunset on the horizon. I’ve resisted putting in one of my favorite Henry James quotes which I often return to for the July issue. But I just can’t resist closing with it: “Summer afternoon- summer afternoon...the two most beautiful words in the English language.” We wish you many glorious, happy, summer afternoons this year. u

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on the cover: Sportswear designer, Toby Tucker Peters’ two sons, Tucker (left) and Jack (right), in Central Park.

The duo share a brotherly moment after playing tennis at the Central Park tennis courts. Produced

by Elizabeth Meigher.

Photographed by Katie Fischer.

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NEW YORK SO CIAL DIARY among the death notices in the Palm Beach Post on July 1st was the following: “Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, formerly Dora Dodge Moran, passed to our Father in Heaven on May 27, 2011, at 5:20 a.m. She is survived by her son, John Dodge, Sr., and grandson, John Dodge, Jr. A short graveside burial service

will be held on July 6, 2011, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery, 10941 Southern Blvd., Royal Palm Beach, FL (561.793.0711). Anyone wishing to pay their respects are welcome to join us.”

Gregg Sherwood Dodge Moran had died and gone unburied more than a month before, in a

healthcare facility in West Palm Beach. It’s a name that means nothing to most people although the name Dodge, printed thrice in that short death notice, is the key to her story.

She was in her eighty-eighth year. Although she was virtually unknown even to most of her health caregivers, in her day, she

was a babe, a much-publicized, much-talked-about platinum blonde with a force of personality that came with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

When she first came to the limelight in the mid-1940s, in New York, the Broadway columnists like Walter Winchell and Dorothy Kilgallen referred to her

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as a “showgirl” or an actress. She was what they called a “dame,” a girl who played to the guys. Those column items were tickets to the big time, and every girl looking for the end of the rainbow knew it.

Translated, all of it meant business—something for sale. Girls who got lucky like her ended up in the movies, or marrying a rich guy.

Gregg Sherwood never made it as an actress, but when she married Horace Dodge, heir to the Detroit automobile fortune, she’d found the proverbial pot of gold and her life became the movie.

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tad then adopted Dora Mae and gave her his name.

She was a small-town girl with big-town dreams. In high school she was outgoing and liked the boys. Some said she may have been a bit “too popular,” but they always said that about a certain kind of girl.

By the time she was in her teens, she was dating fraternity boys at Beloit College. She was known as a party girl. The boys called her “Dumb Dora” but what did they know; she was going places even if they weren’t. She had dreams.

After high school, it was straight to New York to be an actress.

She enrolled in the John Robert Powers Modeling School, which was famous across America. She bleached the brown hair blonde and re-named herself for Broad-

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way and Hollywood: Gregg Sherwood (the “Gregg” she took from the name of a shorthand method taught in high schools, and “Sherwood” was one of the better residential streets in Beloit).

At 19, she married a serviceman stationed in North Carolina, and moved there to be near him.

Still starry-eyed, she entered the 1943 Miss North Carolina beauty pageant. She took fifth place but nothing came of it career-wise.

A couple years later, when her husband was discharged from the service, the couple moved back to Beloit to set up housekeeping. It soon became clear that married life wasn’t doing it for Gregg Sherwood, who still saw herself as star material. By 1946 she was back in New York, divorced, and working as a model, doing bit parts on tele-

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vision and in the theatre.

Two years later, she married again, to a guy named Sherwin who worked for the New York Yankees. Mr. Sherwin, she told friends and family, was an heir to the Sherwin Paint fortune. With some of that “fortune,” Mr. Sherwin renovated and refurbished her parents’ house back in Beloit to the tune of $43,000—the equivalent of a half million dollars in today’s currency. However, by the time it was finished, Mr. Sherwin had yet to pay them a dime. The ensuing pursuit for the balance due led to the discovery that Mr. Sherwin was no heir to any fortune. His closest proximity to any big bucks was the cash register in the ticket office at Yankee Stadium, where he was a ticket seller. Shortly thereafter, he

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A was a stub in Gregg Sherwood’s wastebasket of dreams.

At that point in her life, in that era, Gregg Sherwood wasn’t far from being over the hill, and still had nothing to show for it. Hollywood stars—women—were considered “older” by their midthirties. A dame from Beloit with platinum blonde hair and two divorces to chumps and losers had about five minutes left. She knew it too. The one thing she had, probably given to her by her mother, however, was a sense of herself as a woman—a self-confidence. “I could always get a man,” she would later say.

By the early 1950s, now in her late twenties, Gregg divorced for the second time, and focused on her “career” in New York and in

Hollywood. The party girl continued to forge her connections through the men she “dated” and drank with. Some small movie and stage roles came her way, including a bit as a showgirl in the MGM version of “The Merry Widow,” starring Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas. She was meeting these people on a social basis. At a party one night in New York she met Horace Dodge, Jr., heir to the centimillion dollar auto fortune.

He was 51 and she was 28.

Horace Dodge was a heavyset middle-aged man by the time they met. He was known everywhere in Café Society for the obvious reasons—a rich boy with bottomless pockets and nothing but time to play. The car that bears the same name was built and sold by his

father and uncle, Horace, Sr., and John Dodge. The Dodge brothers were an industrial phenomenon in that phenomenal Age of Industry in America.

Two Midwest farm boys, close in age and inseparable, with high mechanical aptitudes, together they went into the budding automotive business in 1900, the year Horace, Jr., was born. In 1903 they began manufacturing engines for Henry Ford’s ModelT. Ford, then a fledgling entrepreneur himself, paid the Dodge brothers for the first 605 engines they produced for him with stock in the new Ford Motor Company. The relationship was a bonanza for everybody. When Ford bought their brothers’ shares in 1919, they owned 25 percent of

the stock in the company.

Ten years later, in 1913, the Dodges left Ford to go out on their own, manufacturing trucks and ambulances. From nothing to everything in a period of two decades because of brains and talent, they were giants in a still-infant industry. Then, in 1920, John and Horace Dodge, both in their early fifties, died suddenly within several months of each other.

Five years later, in 1925, their two widows sold Dodge Motors to Dillon Read, the New York investment bank, for $146 million (many billions in today’s dollars).

It was a smart move on the widows’ part, and even smarter on the part of the adviser who put all of Anna Dodge’s millions in municipal bonds, a very conservative in-

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vestment in the age of the Roaring ’20s. When the stock market crash came four years later, Anna Dodge and her children would not only lose nothing but they would always have their enormous tax-free annual income.

Anna and Horace Dodge had two children, a daughter Delphine and Horace, Jr., who, at the time of their father’s death, were 21 and 20, respectively. They were brought up in the traditions of their generation and of the Midwest. Their father was a man who was rich and therefore right, as in correct. He and his brother had become major American industrialists using their hands and their brains. They were known for their crude manners and ag24 QUEST

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gressive dispositions, as well as for their wealth and their power. They were of a generation of hardscrabble men who created American industry of the 20th century.

Someone may know how all that translated in the man’s own home with his children. However they were parented, both Delphine and her brother, Horace, lacked either the ingenuity or creative imagination of their father. Both would grow up to make lives as permanent residents of the social and gossip columns in New York, Palm Beach, Grosse Pointe, etc.

From the sound of it, they were the rich-kid “victims” of slick fortune hunters.

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ace Dodge home to Beloit to meet the parents. Horace was an agreeable fellow, and they adored him.

Two years later, he divorced his fourth wife and married Gregg.

This was not news to the tabloids.

He had already proposed at an internationally publicized party at a house they’d rented on the Riviera, presenting her with a $50,000 diamond.

The following year, Confidential magazine ran a story on Horace and that party in the South of France entitled, “Meet Horace, Jr., The Only Dodge that Ever Ran on Bourbon.”

The story recalled the engagement party in Cannes, where “nurses had to hold (his) head off the table because he was so drunk.”

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Horace’s alcoholism only got worse, as these things go. Whatever the relationship with Gregg, she indulged in extra-marital interests with the justification that she was married to a drunk— which was true. It was also true that she liked to bend the elbow more than a bit herself.

In the mid-1950s the newlyweds decided to settle into wedded bliss in Palm Beach, where Horace’s mother had a famous mansion, and where she’d remarried a younger man named Hugh Dillman six years after her husband died. Anna Dodge Dillman reigned as one of the dowager queens of Palm Beach along with other legendary heiresses like Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan,

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Meanwhile, his mother’s best circles aside, everything Horace and Gregg did or publicly fought about was fodder for the gossip rags like Confidential. The marriage was soon off-and-on. By 1960, Horace Dodge’s drinking often left him wheelchair-bound.

Gregg wasn’t going to stay home and keep the boy company, however. As Mrs. Horace E. Dodge, she now had both money and a certain stature in certain moneyed crowds in New York and Palm Beach.

She was also still the party girl she always was, and now she liked it even more. She was known for who she was: the small-town girl who came to New York with dollar signs in her eyes, and she liked that, too. She didn’t mind what people said behind her back because she got what she wanted, one of the richest heirs in America.

Then, one cold winter night in Manhattan in early 1961, while out at a cocktail party in an apartment on Park Avenue (without Horace), she was introduced to a very handsome young Irish-American member of the NYPD named Danny Moran. The rookie patrolman moonlighted as a bodyguard for Barbara “Bobo” Rockefeller, the former wife of Winthrop Rockefeller who a few years before had received a record multi-million-dollar divorce settlement from her ex-husband.

Whatever happened in their heads that night when Mrs. Horace Dodge met Bobo Rockefeller’s bodyguard, Gregg fell. This was a first for her, in a way: she in her late thirties, he in his early twenties. A “much younger” man in those days was one of two things—what John Fairchild dubbed in WWD “a walker,” or a gigolo.

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rich and sophisticated, yet polite and deferential, steadfast but almost shy. You could imagine him as a good cop. The answer to any matron’s dream.

Soon she was seeing a lot of the handsome cop, and beginning to take him around as a “bodyguard.” She suited him up at the better tailors and shoemakers. It was the young movie hunk and the just-beginning-to-age blonde beauty. An age-old story, almost a version of Sunset Boulevard.

People soon got the picture, although, often, Danny Moran looked lost and uneasy in the social situations. But he was amiable and accommodating by nature.

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eyes. Everybody but Horace Dodge, and his mother—who ironically had also married someone very much her junior.

From Gregg’s point of view, she could mold him. She was now the one with the dough, and he was the one with the looks (and the youth). Very quickly she saw her life more clearly for the first time. “I have what I want. I don’t need anybody in my life,” she confided to a man she’d hired to do her public relations, “but I’d kill for my mother, my little Johnny, and for Danny.”

In the meantime, in 1961, Horace Dodge filed for divorce, claiming, “I cannot afford that woman.” He accused her of spending hundreds of thousands on clothes,

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jewelry, and other luxuries.

Gregg hired the famous Hollywood divorce lawyer Jerry Geisler to go after the kind of settlement Bobo Rockefeller got.

Then, in late 1963, before the divorce was final, Horace Dodge died. He was 63. His will revealed that he had gone through all of his own inheritance, and now owed his mother millions.

Gregg was left out in the cold.

The following year she sued her mother-in-law. After all, Anna Dodge was grandmother of Horace and Gregg’s son, John, and it was well known that she—by then 92 years old (she would live to be 99)—was an enormously rich woman. The suit was settled out of court for

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between $9 and $11 million.

Several years before, Gregg had started a charity in New York called Girl’s Town, which funded living and educational facilities for homeless and/or abused girls between the ages of 11 and 18, in Florida. She staged fund-raising benefits here in New York and in Palm Beach, traveling with her bodyguard always by her side. The charity gave her social profile a boost.

In 1967 Gregg Dodge married Danny Moran. They bought a townhouse on East 63rd Street, a mansion out in Southampton, an estate in Greenwich (which was owned by Leona Helmsley at the end of her life), and a house in Palm Beach. The lovebirds

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were riding high.

The following year, in 1968, in the Palm Beach house, Danny shot and killed an “intruder”—a young Hispanic man who was allegedly entering his bedroom through a second-story window.

The intruder was identified as a local busboy.

The story was “accepted” for want of any other evidence, but not without doubts as to the busboy’s motive for entering (or exiting) the bedroom in the first place (his body was found outside the house). Somehow it didn’t sound like a robbery. But, if not, then what was the busboy doing climbing into Danny Moran’s bedroom window?

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Danny Moran had been presenting to the community, revealing instead something perhaps dark and tawdry.

In the early 1970s, Stephen Birmingham, working for Town & Country, wrote a piece about Mary (Mrs. Laddie) Sanford, then the doyenne of Palm Beach and, for a while, a “friend” or mentor to Gregg Dodge Moran.

In Birmingham’s article, Mrs. Sanford was quoted as saying something that infuriated Gregg.

She sued the magazine for $54 million. The suit went on for four years until the New York State Court of Appeals dismissed it. Mrs. Sanford’s attorney said his client was “elated by the decision. She is glad to have this over—and it took four years and

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she forgives Gregg Moran for all the uncomplimentary things said about Mrs. Sanford.”

The lawsuit against one of the dowagers was unwise in the eyes of the community of Palm Beach society. Furthermore, Gregg Dodge was known to be running out of money, having gone through everything she got from Anna Dodge, and now piling up debt to maintain her lifestyle.

The year 1977 brought the decisive blow to the dream: Danny Moran shot himself to death in the bedroom of their house on 1089 South Ocean Boulevard. It was said that he was despondent and humiliated by the turn of financial events. He was forty years old and his life was over. Another bullet hole was found in the bedroom

wall but it had been there from three days before. In 1978, bankruptcy reports showed Gregg Sherwood Dodge Moran was $3.5 million dollars in debt. Less than a year later, in 1979, she was arrested for grand larceny and charged with embezzling money from her son’s $8 million trust fund.

She pleaded guilty to taking $434,000 from her son, including $75,000 from a New York bank account. Her son put up the $100,000 bail bond.

That was more than 30 years ago. And yet, in retrospect, that was the end of life as Gregg Dodge had known it all too briefly. The wife and widow of Horace Dodge never recovered financially (nor, from all reports, mentally). She had to move out of Palm Beach

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The stress and probably the booze weakened her even further, so that a few years ago she was living at St. Mary’s Health Institute in West Palm.

Why more than a month passed before Gregg Dodge’s death and burial were announced is not known. What is known by those who remember this now-forgotten woman is that for all the ballyhoo with the upper sets, she had been run over by life and left in indigent obscurity by the side of the road. Despite what all those boys at Beloit College who called her Dumb Dora thought, she did

scale the heights in the eyes of her world. But at the peak, she lost her balance, had a great fall, and was never the same again.

Three days before the passing of Gregg Dodge in Florida, the 105-year-old reclusive mining heiress Huguette Clark died in New York in a private hospital room, where she had been living for the last 22 years of her life.

The existence of this heiress came as a surprise to almost everyone. The family has long been out of the public eye. Senator Clark himself has been a topic of conversation in New York for years because of the house he built on 77th and Fifth Avenue, a veritable palace that was recalled (although not accurately) as the most vulgar mansion in New York. It is a con-

fection and a massive palace.

The discovery of Huguette Clark’s existence outside of a tiny circle of caretakers, staff, lawyers, and doctors was made by a reporter for MSNBC.com named Bill Dedman. It first came to us as a real-estate story: recluse owns a fully furnished four-and-a-halfbedroom apartment at 807 Fifth Ave. and hasn’t lived there for more than 20 years. So removed had she been from daily life that at first many believed she’d died long ago.

The madness of money. Instead, she turned out to be a female version of the Howard Hughes complex—a recluse operating in a tiny, tightly controlled environment that excludes almost all people and almost all contact with

the people not excluded. Was she crazy, you might ask? She definitely dwelled in a different orbit and this was only possible because she had money.

She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Her father had been, especially in the eyes of a child, a very rich and very powerful man who controlled his world totally. But Senator Clark died 86 years ago and his willful, corruptive personality has long been forgotten.

The last will and testament of Huguette Clark was filed this past month by the law firm of Holland & Knight. Ms. Clark’s executors are her lawyer for the past 15 years, Wallace Bock, and her accountant for the past 30 years, Irving Kamsler. The estate has an

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The Huguette Clark will calls for the establishment of a foundation named the Bellosguardo Foundation “for the primary purpose of fostering and promoting the arts,” a very convenient catchall term which will greatly benefit whomever is selected to run it.

Bellosguardo is the name of Clark’s 24-acre oceanside estate in Santa Barbara that was built in 1933 after a previous house

owned by her father was demolished. The house, which Ms. Clark remarkably had not visited since her mother died in 1963, will serve as a permanent museum to house her “extensive collection of fine art, rare books, musical instruments and other exhibition quality objects.”

The house is currently assigned an estimated value of $100 million. Also assigned to the foundation are the two apartments at 407 Fifth Ave. in New York, which were acquired in the late 1920s after her father’s mansion at 962 Fifth Ave. was sold in 1927, two years after his death.

The apartments contain several valuable pieces of art including works by John Singer Sargent, Auguste Renoir, and William

Merritt Chase, and more than fifty of Ms. Clark’s own paintings, as well as numerous musical instruments collected mainly by her mother, Anna Clark, including a Stradivarius.

One painting, from Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” series, will go to the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Last publicly displayed in 1907, the picture was acquired by her in 1930 through the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery in Paris, from the painter.

Also bequeathed in Ms. Clark’s will was $1 million to Beth Israel Hospital, where she resided since the late 1980s.

She left cash bequests to a small group of individuals including her physician, her former assistant, her accountant, Mr. Kamsler, and

her attorney, Mr. Bock, as well as to property managers and other staff members.

Her other prized holding was a large doll collection that went in its entirely (“including dollhouses and doll clothing”) to her longtime private nurse, Hadassah Peri, whom she met in 1991, after she moved into the hospital. Ms. Peri is said to have spent more time with Ms. Clark over the past two decades of her life than anyone else, and was regarded as a “loyal friend and companion.”

The balance, after bequests to the Foundation and the Corcoran, which account for about 75 percent of the assets, and after payment of estate taxes, is to be divided between Ms. Peri and Ms. Clark’s goddaughter,

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She was born June 9, 1906, to Anna and William Clark. Her father was 67 at the time of her birth and her mother was 28.

Anna Clark was the second wife of the senator, whose first wife and mother of five of his children, had died in 1893. Four years before the birth of Huguette, Anna also had Andree.

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who regarded him as (especially) corrupt. Mark Twain, who knew him, considered him “as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag.” He felt Senator Clark’s “proper place in life was a penitentiary with a chain and ball on his leg.”

A farmboy from the Midwest, Clark first went to Montana with a mule-drawn cart of supplies to sell to miners. This was the era when the great mining fortunes of America were first prospected and claimed. He was neither a prospector or investor but he turned that freight into a great fortune, which included picking up prospectors’ claims for a small sum and reaping massive profits from them for decades thereafter.

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When all of his children were young, he settled multimilliondollar fortunes on each daughter.

(Andree, by his second marriage to Anna, was born two years before Huguette, and died at age 17 of meningitis.)

The senator moved to New York in the late 1890s and built a huge mansion on Fifth Avenue.

The house, which was completed by the time of Huguette’s birth, was said to have cost about $7 million (or about 30 times that in today’s currency).

Although his castle was widely criticized as garish and grotesque, many believed it to be splendid and beautiful. However, when he died in 1925, his only immediate family were Huguette and her

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mother, who put it on the market.

Two years later, in 1927, it was sold to a prominent New York developer, Anthony Campagna, for just under $3 million. Campagna, undeterred, took it down and hired architect Rosario Candela to build what became 960 Fifth Ave., still one of the great luxury cooperative apartment buildings in Manhattan.

Huguette and her mother moved to the apartments five blocks south on 72nd and Fifth.

Huguette, who was briefly married between the ages of 21 and 23, lived in the smaller apartment (although hardly small by normal standards) above her mother’s that occupied an entire floor of the building.

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musicians and often purchased musical instruments for them.

Huguette saw or spoke very often with the wife of her father’s doctor until the doctor’s wife died in 1987, (the doctor, who died in 1957, had been the senator’s physician since the early years of the 20th century).

The intense isolation of the woman that began at least when she was in her early twenties was never seriously questioned in terms of motivation. It was always “well, you know Huguette.”

However, it is clear that she was not actually anti-social but rather withdrawn.

The question remains: Why? She is reported to have believed people were after her money but that is a common belief among

the rich; and an easy excuse for a lot of things.

Today the question is: What went wrong? We would naturally begin in the child’s home. We know from witnesses that she and her mother lived in close proximity to each other until the mother’s death, and their relationship as witnessed by others was not hostile. The mother is also described by her goddaughter as a “thoughtful, kind, loving, fascinating French lady with impeccable taste and a great love for music,” who “supported and bought rare instruments for many well-known musicians of the period.”

Huguette, the goddaughter recalls, lived in the apartment above her mother and “was very much alone by her choice.” She was very

close to the goddaughter’s mother and would phone her often. She remained close to the family until she moved into the hospital and cut off all communication.

She had a very brief marriage to a boy who was a contemporary when she was in her early twenties.

Later, however, when she was in her early forties, she was pursued by a French count, Etienne de Villemont. Her lawyer referred to de Villemont, who was also older than Huguette as the “no-account count,” and her mother opposed him as well. The matter was a bone of contention between mother and daughter, and mother won out.

So why did this woman with all the money in the world and everything to go with it isolate herself from the world? And why did she

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finally leave it all behind and move into a hospital? She was not in ill health, as we know, so why the hospital? For one thing, she was safely under the care of members of the medical profession, whom she learned in childhood were protective and caring, and the closest people to her outside of her mother for most of her youth.

Secure, and protected. But from what? From whom? She clearly liked people (she could trust). Yet her need to isolate began early.

What was her relationship with her father like? Nothing is known, at least nothing that has been revealed in writing. Senator Clark divided his huge estate equally between his surviving children.

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guette’s relationship with him is the single photograph of her with her father and her sister Andree taken in 1916, when Huguette was ten, her sister fourteen, and Clark seventy-seven.

Looking at this image in terms of body language, you see the elder daughter leaning in toward her father—her left arm comfortably tucked in his. The younger daughter, Huguette, stands stiffly straight, feet tightly together, arms straight by her side; her father’s left hand grasps her left upper arm while she stands stiffly apart, never touching him. Her physical proximity to the man is less than her sister’s. Was it of-the-moment and unremarkable, or was that tension in the child’s body language? And

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if so, what does it denote?

We also know that Senator Clark “adopted” the girls’ mother when she was fifteen, after the death of his first wife. This caused a great deal of talk among the senator’s peers, and none in his favor. We also know that he was used to corrupt activities to gain power, to get his way in business and, no doubt, in life. He was a powerful man, powerful in his family, and powerful in his legacy.

So great was the power he possessed for his children that it may explain or at least refer to why his seventh child, his daughter who outlived him by eighty-six years, kept his properties perfectly maintained, as he would have for himself, despite the fact that she

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never even visited them.

In her dotage she sought refuge in an institution from unsafe, dangerous, or life-threatening physical situations. This was the central focus of her entire life from youth to old age. The “threat” that motivated Huguette was real enough to last a lifetime. It could easily be assumed to have been traumatic, the kind that begins in childhood. “Oh, you know, she’s just being Huguette” was always the basic explanation, meaning nothing; or everything, depending…. What was she afraid of?

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On August 6, the Preservation Society of Newport will raise money to support the restoration of The Elms Stable and Carriage House, which will function as a place to study the architectural and cultural history of Newport. For more information, call 401.847.1000.

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all aboard

Art Newport will take place aboard SeaFair at Perry Mill Wharf in Newport, RI, from July 1 through the 31st. For more information, call 239.495.2024.

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Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, RI. For more information, call 401.849.3990.

p.m. at Baldwin Park in Greenwich, CT. For more information, call 203.299.1300.

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Shakespeare on the Sound will stage its first performance of Much Ado About Nothing at 7:30

Noreen Stonor Drexel will be honored at “A Night of Tribute” celebrating the Newport Hospital

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The Newport International Polo Series, presented by 41°North, will host “USA vs. Kenya” at 5 p.m. at the Glen Farm Polo Grounds in Portsmouth, RI. Matches are held every Saturday from June through September. For more information, call 401.846.0200.

at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, RI. Proceeds will benefit the Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center. For more information, call 401.845.1619.

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yacht-zee

The fourteenth annual IYRS summer gala sponsored by the Hilton Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will begin at 6 p.m. at the International Yacht Restoration School in Newport, RI. This year, the theme is “black and white” as the event will feature an exhibit of black and white photography from marine photographers. For more information, call 401.848.5777.

sail away

The Tiedemann Classic Regatta will begin at Sail Newport in Newport, RI. For more information, call 401.846.1983.

a grand slam

The International Tennis Hall of Fame will in Newport, RI, will host its annual induction ceremony.

This year, Andre Agassi, eight-time Grand Slam champion, heads the list of nominees. For more information, call 401.849.3990.

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Several ATP World Tour players will compete for the Van Alen Cup during a seven-day tournament on grass courts at the International 44 QUEST

On July 12, the “Citizens Summer Cocktail” will take place at the Central Park Boathouse. The event will celebrate those who work toward improving New York City’s neighborhoods. For more information, call 212.822.9595.

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The Parrish Art Museum’s midsum-

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rock the boat

The Citizens Committee of New York City will host its summer cocktails at 6 p.m. at the Central Park Boathouse. The event will feature cocktails and a buffet, live jazz, and gondola rides. For more information, call 212.822.9595.

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starry night

The Belle Haven Club in Greenwich, CT, will hold “Under the Stars” at 7 p.m. The event will benefit Greenwich Hospital’s Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Department.

For more information, call 203.863.3863. world on a string

ETHEL, a postclassical string quartet, will perform at 8 p.m. at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. For more information, call 203.966.9700.

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The LongHouse Reserve will host its summer gala entitled “White Hot and Blue” at 6 p.m. at its grounds in East Hampton, NY. The event will honor Dale Chihuly, a glass sculptor, and will feature a performance by the New York City

On July 16, “White Hot and Blue” will take place at 6 p.m. at the LongHouse Reserve. Dale Chihuly, whose artwork is pictured above, will be honored at the event. For more information, call 631.329.3568.

Ballet. For more information, call 631.329.3568.

every Saturday from June through September. For more information, call 401.846.0200.

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The Newport International Polo Series, presented by 41°North, will host “U.S.A. vs. Ireland” at 5 p.m. at the Glen Farm Polo Grounds in Portsmouth, RI. Matches are held

make history

The Island Moving Company’s Great Friends dance festival will kick off with “Dance with the Stars” at the Great Friends Meeting House in Newport, RI. For more information, call 401.848.4470.

The Preservation Society of Newport will host a black-tie dinner to celebrate the centennial of The Elms Stable and Carriage House in Newport, RI. The event will begin at 7 p.m. For more information, call 401.847.1000.

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The Fitch’s Corner Horse Trials will take place through July 24 in Millbrook, NY. For more information, call 845.677.5479.

This year’s Hyde Hall gala, “Americans in Paris,” will take place at 6 p.m. at the Glimmerglass State Park in Cooperstown, NY. For more information, call 607.547.5098.

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wade in the water

On July 30, the Water Mill Center will host “Voluptuous Panic,” featuring six acres of installations and performances from artists of over thirty countries. For more information, call 212.253.7484.

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The Watermill Center in Watermill, NY, will bring together the worlds of theater, art, design, and society for “Voluptuous Panic,” the eighteenth annual Watermill Summer Benefit. The event, beginning at 6 p.m., will feature six acres of installations and performances from international artists. For more information, call 212.253.7484.

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“Magic Under the Moonlight” will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club. The event benefits the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons and will feature magic by JB Benn and music by Andrew Andrew. For more information, call 631.537.0400.

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IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY chess genius bobby fischer was the most complicated and the most fascinating person I have ever known.

We first met in November 1971 when Life magazine sent writer Brad Darrach and me to Buenos Aires, where Bobby was to play a “Candidates Match” against the Russian former title-holder Tigran Petrosian, the last opponent before Bobby could play for the title of World Champion against the current Russian champion Boris Spassky.

Bobby was wary of the press, but we got along because I knew nothing about chess. By the time we left Buenos Aires, Bobby had agreed to see me in May 1972 at Grossinger’s in upstate New York where he would be in training for the title match. Brad and I became the only outsiders Bobby would talk with.

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Bobby thought of himself as an athlete, and he trained with singleminded persistence. He was determined that Spassky would not wear him down at the table. He followed a strict regimen each day to prepare for the demands of the grueling upcoming match in Iceland. After a daily workout in the gym followed by a sauna and rubdown, Bobby would swim laps and stay underwater for as long as he could (as shown in the photograph here).

Bobby repeatedly said to me, “Spassky, I am going to crush him.”

Bobby’s prediction did come true, in what the press has called “A Battle of the Cold War.” Boris Spassky resigned during the twenty-first game of the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, on September 1, 1972. I was to photograph

Spassky that morning, but when I arrived at his hotel, he was leaving and said to me, “There is a new world champion, Robert James Fischer.” I immediately went to Bobby’s hotel to give him the news. My being the first to tell Bobby that he was the new champion made it into the front-page story in the New York Times the next day.

Although controversy surrounds Fischer’s later years, to me the real Bobby Fischer was the genius who single-handedly won a superlative battle for America against the Russians in the middle of the Cold War. That, to me, is his legacy. u Photograph and text from the new book Bobby Fischer by Harry Benson (powerHouse Books, July 2011).

Bobby Fischer, May 1972.

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in the forum As some of you may have heard, my country has been in the news lately. So much so, in fact, that every Tom, Dick and Harry have suddenly become a pundit and have felt qualified to preach to the Greeks about what they’ve done wrong. “Mea culpas” are easy—American celebrities caught taking drugs, beating up their girlfriends, or molesting underage children are experts at it—so this column will not go that way.

Instead, I will tell you what your answer

The beautiful Greek coastline. The country has been making headlines lately with the debt crisis. Opposite, from top: Dominique Strauss-Kahn; Greeks demonstrating against the IMF in May; euro coins and bank notes; Greek prime minister, George Papandreou.

should be when the ubiquitous subject of the elephant in the room—a.k.a Greek debt and default—comes up.

One so-called pundit, Roger Cohen, writing in the International Herald Tribune, says that the Greeks are not in a state of mind not conducive to paying taxes and blames this condition on the effects of the population exchange with the Turks back in 1923. Huh? That’s a new one. Greeks don’t pay their taxes because the state has never done anything for them except take

the money and run. Greek-Americans pay their taxes, however, which shows they’re less sophisticated than the homegrown types because their moolah goes to finance wars and pay for ethnic minorities’ drug use. A Reuters scribe, Hugo Dixon, refers to the Franco-German banks as Greece’s “saviors.” Again, huh? He wants the “saviors” to play hardball with the Hellenes.

Hugo Dixon is no Victor Hugo. He’s paid

by Reuters to write rubbish without doing any real research. Which the greatest

Ta k i Greek writer since Aristophanes, Taki, is famous for doing.

But let’s get down to facts.

Greece’s debt is now growing faster than its economy, making it a mathematical certainty that she will not pay her creditors. Yet, the euro was launched on the basis of an explicit assurance that no country could assume the debts of another. (Article 125.) The rules were violated as far back as eleven years ago, and continue to be violated today. And although commentators continue to write and declare that the bailout money is going to Greece, it is not. It’s going to those European banks and bondholders who hold Greek government debt. That’s a big difference. An even bigger difference is that the repayment will come from Greek taxpayers.

Greece is not being helped. It is being sacrified to save the euro.

European leaders are quite happy to condemn the people of Greece, Portugal, and Ireland to deflation, poverty, and debt.

These are the very same people who advocate high taxes and big government—the global technocratic elite who say one thing and do quite another.

The Dominique Strauss-Kahns of this world and others of his ilk.

They personify French and British hypocrisy, the German belief in number crunching, and bankers’ greed. These people—and Greek prime minister George Papandreou, who personifies that elite—are quite happy to load the cost of the bailout on Germany and France, but will absolutely not admit that a monetary union was a mistake.

Let’s face it. Greece should default and revert to the drachma, but is not allowed to by the powers that be. Instead, the liabilities are allowed to pile up until they become unsustainable. Then, imprisoned by the euro, Greeks face a generation of emigration from its economic shambles. What is extremely frustrating to me, personally, is why the Eurocrats are doing this. It is all about the precedent. If one country breaks away, others might also. And then what? I know many such Euros-

cum, bankers who work for the EU, technocrats who plan the long strategy, politicians, and so on. I often clash with them at dinner parties because of their habit of talking down to people. “We know better, that is our job,” sort of thing. They know nothing except how to cook the books and lie, as far as I’m concerned.

All Greek politicians have been thieves, but the Brussels bunch of Dominique Strauss-Kahns makes them look like Diogenes. Brussels is more corrupt than any administration ever, and by that I include the African continent.

These are the very same people who want direct E.U. taxes on financial transactions, on air travel, even on international telephone calls. They call it “fiscal federalism,” a euphemism for financial dictatorship. What Hitler and Stalin and many others failed to achieve through force of arms, these bums, the Eurocrats-technocrats-bankers, want to achieve through stealth and financial trickery.

And another thing. If Greece were allowed to leave the euro, other countries might start pulling out, and before you know it, thousands of Brussels functionaries would become redundant. Then what? They might have to go to work for a living, but doing what? Most professional politicians are incapable of earning a living, as it was proved in my country during the seven-year military dictatorship. (Most of them came begging to my daddy for handouts because they had spent their stolen moolah and had no way to replace it.)

Greece accounts for only 1.9 per cent of the E.U.’s economy. Its troubles are containable. The reason they will not allow Greece to default is political. Let’s get a Greek up there who will tell Brussels and the thieves to jump in the lake and let’s get back to our dear old drachma.

It will be tough for a while but so what? We can be the Switzerland for the whole Middle East.

Just look at Turkey. E.U., go [expletive] yourself. u For more information, visit takimag.com.

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on june 14, the Film Society of Lincoln Center dedicated the new Francesca Beale Theater at Lincoln Center with cocktails, dinner, and a private screening for 180 guests. Because the theater is the most technologically advanced in the U.S., the Society expects it to become a preferred venue for previews of major motion pictures as well as for introducing new directors and independent films to American audiences.

Francesca Beale is a Film Society Board member, entertainment lawyer, and cinephile. She has been a supporter of the Film Society for 16 years and is a passionate advocate for film. At the ceremony, she said that she believes that “film is a force for good and is a powerful and accessible means of sharing world cultures.”

Prior to establishing her own entertainment law practice in New York, Mrs. Beale, who resides in Manhattan and Water Mill, worked for CBS Inc. in New York and Los Angeles. At CBS, she was involved in establishing TriStar

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Pictures and did legal work for major motion pictures and television.

On hand for the dedication was David Rockwell, who designed the theater on West 65th Street, just a few steps from the Vivian Beaumont Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. It looks like no other movie theater in New York, and is more like a private screening room on a giant scale. But, as Rockwell said at the dedication, “when the lights go down, the film is the star.”

Film Society President, Daniel Stern, said the naming of the theater occurred after major gift. He said not just the size but the timing of the gift was important, coming in the wake of the financial crisis when donations were hard to obtain and funds were needed to obtain the latest technology.

To complement the orange-and-blackthemed theater, the men dressed in black while the women wore Hollywood glamour or “Tribeca cool.”

Guests included: Blackstone vice-chair-

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man and East Hamptonite Tom Hill and his wife, Janine; Robert Thompson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, and his wife, Ping Wang; real estate broker Elissa Burke and her Goldman Sachs husband, Alec Stais; Jerry Wolf, a chef who now works on Wall Street and his Ford model wife, Holly Hammond; MIT professor and Morgan Stanley executive Greg McRae; Citigroup’s Sara McKerihan; AIG’s Kathryn Hollerhan and her husband Charles; Perry Capital managing director George Brokaw and his wife, Alison; and copper trader and Southampton resident Jimmy Holme and his wife, Ana Maria.

Others celebrating included: Woody Allen’s erstwhile film editor Susan Morse; film producer Peter Gettinger; Asia Society Director of Film, La Frances Hui; gallery owner Peter Sahlman; ballet critic Astrida Woods of Sag Harbor; Manhattan restaurateur and Water Mill resident Aldo Bozzi; Sag Harbor residents writer Wendy Moonan and Duncan Darrow of the cancer support nonprofit, Fighting Chance; and Mrs. Beale’s two sons, Julian and Andrew Beale, both of whom wrote music for a

recent independent movie.

Mrs. Beale is from Australia and it was announced that she is sponsoring a retrospective on Australian film from 1970 to 1980 at the Film Society in November.

The Hon. Gary Quinlan, Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, said at the dedication, “It’s great to see a theater devoted to new and independent films bear an Australian name. Australia has a proud movie tradition, but this is a first: no other cultural venue in New York has been named after an Australian.

Francesca and her husband, Chris, are the best of Australia’s exports—generous, unpretentious and successful.”

The Australian Consul-General in New York, the Hon. Philip Scanlan, who was also present, said, “Francesca and Chris have shone their light on the cultural scene here for many years. We salute them for their impressive patronage of international culture and the arts.”

Flying in for the event from Australia were Robert Goodrick and Paul Magnus from Canberra, Jim Magnus from Perth, and Pamela Scott from Sydney, who all spent time in Manhattan, Connecticut and Water Mill with the Beales. u

Clockwise from top left: Francesca Beale receives the first ticket to the theater from Film Society President, Daniel Stern; Ping Wang, Robert Thompson, and Chris Beale; Hon. Gary Quinlan, Hon. Philip Scanlan, Francesca Beale, and Jule Singer Scanlan; Holly Hammond and Jerry Wolf; Alison and George Brokaw; Jenny Johnson and Andrew Beale; La Francis Hui and Susan Talbot; Janine and Tom Hill; Julian Beale and Andrea Allan; David Rockwell.

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ahh, july. The fullest summer month, with long and sunny afternoons, sky-lighting sunsets, and sometimes scorching temps. This month, keep your cool with the hottest looks in summer white—or stay fashionably fit in some of the chicest swimwear on the market (don’t forget to hydrate your skin with Molton Brown’s vitamininfused body gel). Looking for the perfect hostess gift for weekend getaways to the beach or in the country? Any way you cut it, we’ve got you coverered.

Splash up your wardrobe with the Dolphin Bracelet Cuff from de Grisogono, featuring 269 blue sapphires with white diamonds on an ivory galuchat cuff. $19,400. de Grisogono: 824 Madison Avenue or 212.439.4220.

We can’t think of a better way to wear white: try this pairing from Ralph Lauren’s classic yet fashion-forward Collection line.

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From Hollywood’s hottest stars to East Coast fashion mavens, everyone’s in love with Stuart Weitzman’s Alex wedge. $365.

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We can’t get enough of Tory Burch, including this Hildy dress in yellow verson stripe ($425) and these Tarlen wedges in jute/cognac ($295). Tory Burch: 38-40 Little West 12th Street or 212.929.0125.

Too cute to pass up: Aaron Basha’s pink teddy bear charm in 18-kt. yellow and white gold with enamel and diamonds. Price upon request. Aaron Basha: 680 Madison Avenue or aaronbasha.com.

Keep your feet light and airy in Belgian Shoes’s Minstrel shoe in yellow all-calf with white trim. $335. Belgian Shoes: 110 East 55th Street or 212.755.7372.

Sling on some pink with Hunter Boot’s Kelso bag in blush—a stylish staple for summer. $475. Hunter Boot: Available at Neiman Marcus, neimanmarcus.com.

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An octopus’s garden in the sea: Asprey’s exquisite and colorful crystal octopus tumblers come in blue, black, and red. $195 each. Asprey: 853 Madison Avenue or 212.688.1811.

We can’t resist Hammocks & High Tea’s organiccotton Kashmir Market Tote in Linden and Masai. $130. Hammocks & High Tea: hammocksandhightea.com.

Be pretty in pink with J.Crew’s Perfect Shirt in pinkstripe Thomas Mason fabric. $158. J.Crew: 800.562.0258.

Trish Becker’s gold vermeil five-drop stack earrings are ideal for both day and night. $145. Trish Becker: trishbeckerjewelry.com.

A great gift for the hostess who has everything: the handcrafted Papillon Tray by Annie Modica. $345. Gracious Home: 1220 Third Avenue, 212.517.6300, or gracioushome.com.

Update your powder room with a garden vision from Tie on the turquoise with Palma Swimwear’s Harbour bottom ($65) and halter top ($65)—there’s no better way to soak in the sun. Made in Brazil.

Palma Swimwear: palma-nyc.com.

Sherle Wagner.

Price upon request.

Sherle Wagner: 300 East 62nd Street, 212.758.3300, or sherlewagner.com.

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Treat your eyes to patriotic shades with Tommy Hilfiger’s TH 1985/S sunglasses in a cool red, white, and blue. $125. Tommy Hilfiger: Available at solsticesunglasses.com.

Keep your skin summer-ready. Book an appointment at The Spa at The Surrey by September 30, 2011 to receive a complimentary 30-minute Orange Energizing Exfoliating body polish with any 60-minute massage or facial. Phone: 646.358.3600.

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Let the light shine in with Nancy Corzine’s

Vilebrequin celebrates 40 years of

26-inch Rondure Lamp

fashionable swimwear with the Plant-A-Fish

in Venetian sterling

Collection, benefitting Fabien Cousteau’s

silver with a silk shade.

Plant-A-Fish charity. $230. Vilebrequin:

Nancy Corzine: Nancy

1070 Madison Avenue, 212.650.0353.

Corzine Showroom, 212.223.8340.

You can never have too many pairs of Havaianas—the flip flop of choice for those in the know. Assorted colors, $22. Havaiana: us.havaianas.com.

The new Oyster Perpetual Explorer II

by Rolex features white lacquered dials with Chromalight display for long-lasting luminescence. Rolex: 800.36.ROLEX or rolex.com.

our own new york under the leadership of Susan Henshaw Jones, the

Museum of the City of New York is entering its next chapter—and far from its last. From the physical expansion and modernization of the building to the digitization of over 62,000 images, Jones and her team are dedicated to making the museum relevant to and engaged with its visitors. “Our main goal is to offer visitors, whether they are oversees or American tourists, or native New Yorkers, the same sense of excitement and stimulation they find in the streets and attractions of the city itself,” says Jones. “We hope that they will learn more about how this amazing metropolis came into being.” Indeed, anyone who has ever visited the Museum of the City of New York is bound to tell you they learned something new from the exhibitions and programs that respond to the city’s changing agenda—even the native New Yorkers. But Jones and her team are simultaneously developing a core for the museum that will sustain it for generations to come.

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The galleries at the Museum of the City of New York during the exhibition dedicated to “America’s Mayor” John Lindsay. Left: Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel Director.

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Above: One of the galleries at the Museum of the City of New York highlights the Theater District. Opposite, clockwise from top left: the “Glory Days of New York Baseball, 1947-1957” exhibit; the new additional wing of the museum as viewed from above; the hall dedicated to American presidents; clothes on view at the “Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style” show; the renovated main gallery with core collection.

The museum has launched a core exhibition project and a fundraising campaign that was kicked off with a million-dollar donation from chairman James Dinan. This core exhibition will occupy the entire first floor and tell the story of the city through images, artifacts, projections, and displays—from the city’s physical growth to its engines of commerce, from its heritage of immigration to its traditions of social activism. “There is simply no museum in the city which will offer anything close to this kind of comprehensive exhibition,” says Jones.

Jones and her team have also committed to making all the collections accessible via the internet, starting with the photography archives. In a massive effort to digitize the collection of over 62,000 images of the city’s social, architectural, and cultural history, the museum will not only be capturing this history, “but also recovering it through the reconditioning of photo negatives which have deteriorated over time,”says Jones.

Part of the tradition of the Museum of the City of New York has been not only to reflect on the past but also to engage with the future. Known for its fascinating debates and panel discussions that relate the current climate of the city to its past, the museum is continuing to grow these professional programs. Recently, Felix Rohatyn and Richard Ravitch spoke on the city’s current fiscal crisis.

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The museum continues to present an ambitious program of short-term exhibitions on a variety of topics, as well as integrating activities, organizing public and school programs around the themes of the exhibitions. From the fashion show “Notorious & Notable: 20th Century Women of Style” to the political “America’s Mayor: John V. Lindsay and the Reinvention of New York,”there is always something new on view at the museum. This June, “The Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis” (on view through October 30) opened to rave reviews from the New York Times: “Though this is a small exhibition, there is much to see and think about. And the show remains with you as you walk out the door.” The article continues to address the museum building, which is the final part of the exhibition (The 1932 Joseph H. Freedlander building is also in the colonial revival style). The building is also being stewarded by Jones: “Our landmark building has excellent bones, but was in desperate need of repair. It had no systems to care properly for our collections or to mount serious exhibitions. Organized so that the museum never closes, the project to bring the museum into the 21st century is more than half complete, with $70 million raised to date.” u For more information, please visit mcny.org.

Finance

making business personal

“i have a saying that I’ve used for years,” says Ehud

Arnon, Israel Discount Bank of New York president and CEO since January. “It’s not the bank that pays our employees’ salaries. It’s the customer who pays our employees’ salaries. Because of this, it’s our job to accommodate our customers the best that we can.”

Arnon’s philosophy is indicative of IDB Bank, a full-service commercial bank known for its strong liquidity and capital ratios (Crain’s New York Business ranks it as the fourteenth largest commercial bank in the New York area).

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Despite the state of the economy, IDB Bank has yet to suffer an unprofitable quarter and, in Q1 2011, boasted a Tier-1 Risk Capital Ratio of 13.75 percent. This success is attributed to the quality of the bank’s relationship with its clients.

“We’re also realistic about our clients’ investments. Since we don’t have our own investment products, we can be as objective as possible when advising someone,” says Arnon.

A “boutique” bank, IDB Bank constantly looks for creative solutions for its clients, while knowing its limitations. “It’s much better to give our clients a quick ‘no’ than a slow ‘yes,’” says

IDB Bank is a full-service commercial bank known for its strong liquidity and capital ratios. Opposite: Ehud Arnon, Israel Discount Bank of New York president and CEO.

Arnon. At IDB Bank, clients receive the attention that they deserve. “We don’t have an ‘800’ number. You call us to reach an individual and not a call center,” says Arnon. Because of its medium size, IDB Bank is able to offer both the personalization of a small institution, and the scale of services of a large one.

As Arnon looks to move forward, he endeavors to do so while maintaining IDB Bank’s character and integrity, both of which have been positively acknowledged in the company’s recent regulatory review. He plans to continue the momentum inspired by his predecessor, Reuven Spiegel,

who believes Ehud’s “deep experience in this industry, his quest for excellence and commitment to the success of the bank will ensure IDB remains one of the strongest commercial banks in the United States.”

In addition to growing IDB Bank’s core commercial banking business, Arnon’s agenda includes opening additional branches in the tri-state area and “aggressively expanding the company’s ‘private banking’ footprint.” “We will continue to roll out more and more services that will be in tune with our local, and international, client base,” says Arnon. u J U LY 2 0 1 1 6 1

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a remodelled gracious home gracious home —Manhattan’s beloved go-to retailer for

everything from light bulbs to luxurious linens—has come a long way since its origins in 1963 as a nuts-and-bolts hardware shop. Ever-upscaling, the retailer today is famous for its unique blend of incomparable hands-on customer service, high-quality home goods and hardware, and an indefatigable spirit catering to the discerning customers who visit its Upper East Side, Upper West Side, and Chelsea locations.

Last year, its fate was uncertain.

After several years of financial distress, the company filed for Chapter 11— until Joel Kier stepped in. Kier, who’s held positions at Goldman Sachs and Edizione Holdings in Italy, brought with him a background in distressed asset management. Last December, along with private investors, he formed the American Retail Flagship Fund, rescued the retailer, and took over as Chairman and CEO. Kier has breathed new life into the company. “Today,” he notes, “everybody is a competitor, from online discounters to high-end retailers.” To maintain a distinctive edge, Kier

has invigorated his employees, tapping into their knowledgeable experience. He’s created “Gracious Gurus,” or experts in their fields. (Need help with dust? Just ask the Vacuum Guru.) “We’re asking our employees to be creative, and they’re responding,” Kier says.

And that response is ultimately serving the customer, Gracious Home’s first priority. Kier is committed to superior service, which includes everything from proper greetings (if you walked in during the recent French Month campaign, you’d have been met with a “Bonjour!”), anticipating customers’ needs and exceeding their expectations (bespoke bedding will debut later this year—simply name your thread count), competitive pricing (look for monthly specials on items across categories), and in-store events like product demonstrations.

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This page, clockwise from top: Gracious Home’s new Chelsea Design Center (45 West 25th Street); Chef Didier prepares traditional dishes at Gracious Home’s “Bonjour! French Month” event at the 1220 Third Avenue store; a Gracious Guru in the bedding department of the Upper West Side store (1992 Broadway). Opposite page, clockwise from center: Chairman Joel Kier discusses cookware; mingling at an in-store event; a display of popular Juliska tableware.

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serving it up On a lovely summer afternoon, five girlfriends head to the tennis courts in Central Park wearing the latest from Toby Tucker Tennis— and find the designer’s two young sons playing a game as well. produced by elizabeth meigher

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Kingsley Lynch Grote warms up. She puts the ball in play wearing a Toby Tucker basic tee in navy blue and white eyelet short with ball pocket, with her own Tretorn sneakers.

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“Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.”

–Russell Lynes

Left, from left to right: Ashley wears a Toby Tucker tennis dress in gray/yellow; Meredith Martin

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wears a Toby Tucker basic tee in gray paired with red grosgrain trimmed short with tennis pocket; Whitney wears a Toby Tucker tennis dress in royal blue/hot pink; Elizabeth Tuke wears a Toby Tucker tennis dress in navy/kelly green.

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how many ways can a garden come to be? From the historic landscape of Calf Creek in Water Mill, founded in the 1800s, to the designs of first-time gardeners Eileen and Mark Catalano in The Springs, from the radical “gentle” hand of Edwina von Gal gardens at her home on Accabonac Harbor, to the ambitious and modern vision of Tony Ingrao and Andy Kemper’s specimen trees at Woodhouse Park, on the East End of Long Island, each garden’s story is different.

Author Jack DeLashmet, in his new book, Hamptons Gardens, (Assouline) shows us the extraordinary gardens that have become a defining feature in this part of the world. Together with photographers Mary Ellen Bartley and Doug Young, he serves as a guide to the horticulture that has so long been a

legacy here, and to the visions of the gardens as they stand today.

“For three years I’ve searched for the very best, most original, and most arresting examples of gardens on the East End,” writes DeLashmet. “Gardens that together epitomize the excitement and uniqueness of the Hamptons landscape, and those created by our most influential gardeners and designers.”

Gardening has had a long tradition in the Hamptons. Many of the classic gardens were first settled in the seventeenth century, and originally used for the utilitarian purposes of European settlers. Now these lands, ranging from Violet Farm in East Hampton to Calf Creek in Water Mill, stand as a legacy to their history, bringing old and new together, a beacon of the beauty and abundance of the Hamptons landscape.

In Mala and Jeff Sander’s garden in Noyack Bay, the plantings follow the horizon line—from beach roses in the spring to Montauk daisies in the fall.

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This page, clockwise from top left: the favorite hangout spot at Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann’s, in Montauk; the gate at Calf Creek in Watermill is planted with climbing roses; Edwina von Gal’s elegant, abstract walkover the salt marsh at her home in The Springs. Opposite, clockwise from top left: David and Mary Hamamoto’s garden in Watermill; local granite was used to minimize the carbon footprint at the Slifkas’ house in Sagaponack; Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper’s specimen trees and shrubs are cut to emmulate sculpture

“Historically, the Hamptons has not only been a source of well-paid commissions but also a fertile creative training ground for landscape designers and gardeners of worldwide significance, and a place where they have met and exchanged ideas,” writes DeLashmet. His book highlights not only the traditional garden design, but also modern and new designs, like Edwina von Gal’s gardens. Calvin Klein has observed, “her hand is gentle.”

“Edwina’s work is remarkable for her appreciation of and respect for the natural conditions of the site,” writes DeLashmet Indeed, all the gardens of DeLashmet’s book illustrate the recognition and respect thateach gardener has for the Hamptons, be it for its history, its legacy, or its natural beauty. u 76 QUEST

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at Woodhouse Park; fencing framed with wooden posts at the Slifkas’.

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the eastenders

By Georgina Schaeffer

rivers; no place has such pure, invigorating air; no place better water; and I am certain there is no place better adapted to men of means,” reported the East Hampton Star in the 1890s.

The turn of the century brought about the greatest change on the East End—with a swank New York crowd coming to the island for the first time. The “life of quietness and peace,” as the Star described it, was set to change. These newcomers became known as “summer colonists.” By the 1930s, East Hampton and Southampton were in full swish mode with fashionable families spending their summers in these charming villages by the sea.

Photographer Bert Morgan (1904-1986) began his career syndicating photographs for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News. By 1930, he was chronicling high society in The Social Spectator, Vanity Fair, and Town & Country. Promising never to publish an unflattering picture, Morgan became the photographer of choice and gained unique access to a rarified post-Gilded Age world, which he would continue to photograph through the 1980s. During the 1950s, he could be found daily during the summer months in Southampton—cataloguing the comings and goings of the social set. u This page, from top: Peter Sullivan, Suzanne Mitchell, Anne Ford, and Chandler Hovey at the Tennis Ball at the Meadow Club; Austine Hearst and Kay Meehan at the Beach Club; Harold Wall presents an award to Henry Ford II and his partner Richard L. Harris (walking), Seventh Flight Winners at the Invitational Golf Tournament at the Shinnecock Golf Club.

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“no place has such natural attractions; no place such beautiful

This page, clockwise from top left: Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dale at The Horse Show Ball at The Meadow Club; Mrs. Warren Johnson, Col. Serge Obolensky, and Mrs. Raul Sanchez-Elio at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club; Mrs. Thomas M. Bancroft, Jr. and Mr. Harcourt Amory, Jr. at the Southampton Bathing Corporation (the Beach Club); Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rodgers at the Tennis Ball at the Meadow Club; Mrs. George Harris at the Beach Club; Southampton Police Chief Buck Burnett is greeted by the receiving line at the AndrewsWannamaker supper dance, July, 4, 1958; Mary Curry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Curry Jr., and Maureen Sullivan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sullivan, at the Beach Club.

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This page, clockwise from top left: Mrs. B. Kingore Bixby (center) with her daughter Mrs. Beatrice B. Andrews and granddaughter Susan Andrews at the Irving Hotel; Maria Cooper Janis and Charlotte Ford at the Beach Club; Tony Leeds, Robert Weiser, Ruth Havemeyer, George Graham, and Sally Niness at the Beach Club; Megan and Richard L. Harris, Jr.,children of Richard Harris, at the Beach Club; Henry R. Benjamin, Jr., Harold M. Wall, Paul Massey, and Oliver Rogers at Shinnecock. Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Billy Hitchcock at the Andrews-Wannamaker dinner dance; Mrs. John B. Aspergren and Mrs. James P. Stuart at Shinnecock; Monte Hackett and Linda Laughlin at the Beach Club dance; Mr. and Mrs. James dePeyster at St. Andrew’s Dune Church for the Prentice-ten Bos wedding; Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Magowan at the Meadow Club opening dinner dance; Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke and Mr. Jacques Fray; Mrs. George Johnson at the Parrish Art Museum for Mr. John’s hat fashion show; Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Messmore at the Beach Club; Mr. and Mrs. Garrick Stephenson at the Beach Club. Center,

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hampton hopping By daniel cappello

Much like with colleges, rivalries still exist among the different towns. Southampton was, say, traditionally Roman Catholic while East Hampton was Protestant. Today, however, the comparisons can be almost cartoonish. Old money scoffs at the nouveau riche; general stores battle with Citarella. In spite of the enduringly beautiful natural landscape that appeals to everyone who sits through hourslong traffic to get there, it’s no wonder that, given the goodhearted jousting, the Hamptons are sometimes laughed at as “the Hamptoons” (often by those who, from a distance, are still vying and longing to get in).

No matter what you call them, or where you stay, some clichéd comparisons admittedly hold true. In the spirit of summer fun, here’s one way of contrasting the Hamptons, town by town. u

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for those whose families go back for generations, they call it, simply, “the country” or “the beach.” Or maybe just “South” or “East” or “Bridge,” depending on which town in particular that they live in. For those who’ve only recently started coming (renting by the month, or erecting chateausize estates), it’s known as “the Hamptons”—those storied summer colonies stretching east along Long Island’s South Fork from Quogue, Westhampton, and Southampton to Water Mill, Bridgehampton, and East Hampton.

Historically, the Hamptons have been the playground of patrician Northeasterners; in recent decades, they’ve become somewhat of an obsession for anyone yearning for a taste of the good life—from Hollywood film producers building giant summer homes to Wall Street hedge-funders seeking a slice of the American dolce vita.

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This page, clockwise from top: Montauk Point Lighthouse; Herrick Hardware in Southampton; windmills dot the landscape of East Hampton and Water Mill; the entrance to Coopers Beach in Southampton, a number-one rated beach in America; the sophisticated Atlantic Golf Club in Bridgehampton; fish is served at Navy Beach Restaurant; surf’s up in Montauk. Opposite page: Iconic dunes on the beaches; dressed-up

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kids frolic at the Meadow Club in Southampton.

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Southampton

The Posh Hampton

The Old-School Hampton

Likely crowd this summer

‹ Blake Lively with Leonardo DiCaprio

The Social Register set

De rigueur clothing staple

Italian calf loafers ›

‹ White jeans

Ranking

Most overheard or overused pick-up line

What’s on the menu for brunch

“My family’s been members

“Any interest in our foursome

of the Maidstone since ’91—1891.”

tomorrow?” [golf understood]

The Barefoot Contessa’s smoked salmon frittata

Catered cheese puffs

and Bloody Marys

and champagne ›

Summer sport of choice

‹ Tennis

Golf

Favorite cocktail for the season

Negroni ›

‹ Southside

Wine at last night’s dinner party

2006 Silver Oak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Sancerre

Standby stalwart restaurant

Nick & Toni’s

Sant Ambroeus ›

Hottest new dinner rezzie

Beachhouse

Little Red

Enduring Bouvier muse

‹ Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale (“They can get you in

Janet Norton Lee Bouvier (Mrs. John Vernou

East Hampton for wearing red shoes on a Thursday...”)

Bouvier III), at the Southampton Horse Show

Descending media

Gotham magazine

Plum Hamptons ›

Guilty pleasure sweet spot

Dreesen’s Donuts ›

Sip ’N Soda

$50,000/mo. for a 4-bedroom “close” to the beach

$115,000/full season for a “charming” country house

The Centurion Card (“AmEx Black”)

“On my tab, please.”

What it’ll cost you to rent

Method of payment

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Montauk Ranking

The Sporty Hampton

The Non-Hampton Hampton

‹ Staffers from the revamped Architectural Digest

Stacey Bendet with Kelly Bensimon and Katie Lee in tow

Likely crowd this summer

Bike helmet

Board shorts (with six-pack abs) ›

De rigueur clothing staple

“You’d better stop horsing around, ’cause

“If you’re a model, I’ve

it’s time to be my girlfriend.”

got the bottle.”

Ricotta pancakes with lemon curd

Raw oyster bar

and huckleberries ›

Most overheard or overused pick-up line

What’s on the menu for brunch

Summer sport of choice

Polo (or anything equestrian)

‹ Surfing

‹ Pimm’s Cup

Red Stripe ›

Favorite cocktail for the season

A North Fork Sauvignon Blanc

“What dinner party?”

Wine at last night’s dinner party

Pierre’s

Duryea’s Lobster Deck

Standby stalwart restaurant

The Almond (in its new location)

Ruschmeyer’s

‹ Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, probably

Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross

biking with Edwin Schlossberg

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local knowledge Jobs Lane opened in 1664—and, though many of the stores have changed (and changed and changed), some things stay the same.

Two locals take you through this tony little town by the sea...

By cornelia ercklentz and georgina Schaeffer

Old postcards illustrate what the town of Southampton used to look like. Landmarks like the library still stand proud today on the corner.

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ralph lauren 41 Jobs Lane / 631.287.6953 Need a tie for dinner at the club? Ralph Lauren can fix that. Southside spilled on your white jeans? Ralph Lauren can fix that too. Forgot to bring a cashmere sweater for the evening chill? Again, Ralph Lauren.

The arbiter of classic American sportswear moved in a few years ago and the shop on Jobs Lane has been bustling ever since. Local knowledge: Don’t forget to stop in the Ralph Lauren Home store located behind a green fence and down the garden walk.

asprey 45 Main Street / 631.488.4016 Asprey decided to come east and opened up shop on Main Street last summer. The store is designed to resemble an English walled garden with white walls, sisal carpets, and lattice backdrops. The store features the ever-popular sterling silver wedding and baby gifts that can be found in the New York City location, as well as their signature crystal, china, jewelry, and watch collections. Founded in 1781, Asprey isn’t quite as old as the town of Southampton, but we’re guessing she has a long future out here. Local knowledge: If you need a backgammon board or towel for the beach, or a picnic basket or tote for polo, look no further than this old English brand.

j.crew 84B Main Street / 631.287.2869 J.Crew-at-the-Beach opened last summer on Main Street in Southampton.

No more battling Route 27 traffic to get over to the East Hampton store on a summer afternoon! Our generation feels as if this brand grew up with us, beginning with that first J.Crew catalogue. Once their roll-neck sweaters and barn coats were de rigueur at every East Coast boarding school (for both guys and gals), now J.Crew has expanded to include everything for men, women, and children—and even a bridal department. Currently, Marissa Webb, head of women’s design at J.Crew, is partnering with Lulu Frost for a new line of accessories. Local knowledge: Ladies, grab a men’s linen shirt to use as a cover-up for an effortless beach look.

fudge company 67 Main Street / 631.820.8822 With 13 flavors of fudge, 20 flavors of ice cream, and over 400 different types of penny candy, this is the place to go if you have a sweet tooth. As kids, the Fudge Company was a regular stop before the movies to grab a bag of candy—which could and would include everything from gummy worms to chocolate-covered pretzels. Local knowledge: Moose Tracks ice cream is a popular flavor here. There used to be a second location on Jobs Lane next to the Driver’s Seat that closed two summers ago.

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, the Elegant Setting 27 West Main Street / 888.277.8837 Do you need a fabulous hostess gift? How about some monogrammed towels, napkins, and cups to make your summer rental a little more personal? If yes, then you have to go see Stephanie Finklestein at The Elegant Setting. Opened in 2004, the original store on Main Street sourced china and crystal. But, today, Stephanie is focusing on monogrammed beach bags, towels, cashmere blankets, and more. Local knowledge: Initialized notepads are a great present and always in stock—easy to get on the go!

Tennis East 73 Main Street / 631.283.9535 Forgot your whites? Don’t worry, Tennis East has you covered. With two stores (one in Southampton and the other in East Hampton), Tennis East has been around for 30 years. This full-service tennis shop has everything you might need from a new Wilson racquet to Fila tennis shoes to Lacoste tennis whites (even a ball machine if that’s what you’re in the market for). They’ll also help you string your racquet, if you got too, er, enthusiastic during your last match and don’t want to get a reputation at the club. Local knowledge: In addition to outfitting you, Tennis East is a great place to find a partner for a pick-up game; they carry information about clinics as well.

Sip ’n soda 40 Hampton Road / 631.283.9752 Established in 1958, Sip ’n Soda is a Southampton institution. A favorite spot for both locals and summer folk, this is the place to grab breakfast or lunch if you’re in town. William and Nicolleta Parash opened the diner with a runway of lunch stools along the counter and a simple menu of burgers, club sandwiches, and homemade ice cream.

Over the last 50-plus years, the customers may have changed, but Sip ’n Soda hasn’t. The Parash’s sons, Jim and Paul, took over the business with Mark, Paul’s son, joining the team in 1993. Local knowledge: The Parash family also opened the Candy Kitchen in Bridgehampton and the Paradise Sweet Shop on the North Fork.

Hildreth’s Department store 51-55 Main Street / 631.283.2300 The earliest photos of Southampton show Hildreth’s standing tall on the same plot of land on Main Street. Today, with three locations in town, Hildreth’s has over 80,000 square feet of departments including sheets, towels, table linens, bed and bath products, housewares, glassware, candles, children’s clothing, gifts, toys, sewing supplies, rugs, lamps, and shades. Whatever you are looking for, Hildreth’s probably has it. Local knowledge: Established in 1842, Hildreth’s is America’s oldest department store in furnishings and accessories.

Stevenson’s 68 Jobs Lane / 631.283.2111 With thousands of toys, Roy and Polly Stevenson’s greatest compliment is when they hear children cry, “Awesome!” in their aisles. Stevenson’s prides itself on carrying both hot-ticket items and old-fashioned toys that will bring back memories. You’ll also find Nantucket rope braclets and other accessories that adults love, too! Local knowledge: The Stevensons took over the building from Lillywhite’s, a third-generation toy store that opened in Southampton in 1895.

Flying point Surf Boutique 69 Main Street / 631.287.0075 Every year, it seems, Flying Point Surf Boutique has even more storefronts in Southampton (and we couldn’t be more thrilled). First came the “Surf & Sport” shop, then the “Surf Boutique” for women, and this year they have added a store for kids. They have two other outposts in Sag Harbor and, most recently, Water Mill. The surfing rage is here to stay. At Flying Point, you will find anything and everything you need if you’re a surfer, or just want to look like one—from boards and rash-guards to Roxy sweatshirts and TOMS shoes. Local knowledge: FlyingPoint also runs a popular surf school if you’re looking to learn how to hang ten.

dazzelle 47 Jobs Lane / 631.283.8477 Opened by Ellen Irving a few years ago, Dazzelle is the perfect place to shop when you need a new ensemble for a summer cocktail party.

As a local Southamptonite, Irving understands the best way—oh, who are we kidding...the only way—to dress for the East End social swim.

You’ll find well-priced evening dresses, jackets, and wraps, a collection of suits, skirts, tops, and dresses for day, as well as an assortment of Barbour jackets and Kenny Jay Lane accessories. Local knowledge: Irving was once part of the team at Cardiere et Cie, a favorite store of Blue Book ladies that closed a number of years ago. She carries many of the same designers and pieces with a similar look.

bookhampton 93 Main Street / 631.283.0270 One of three locations, (they are also in East Hampton and Sag Harbor), BookHampton is the bookstore to grab your summer beach reads, and much more. This shop always has the most popular titles stocked and at the ready, as well as a notable local-author section, on their front tables. BookHampton also carries a solid collection of classics, children’s books, and magazines. Local knowledge: BookHampton also runs popular author speaking events at all their locations throughout the summer. u J U LY 2 0 1 1 8 9

Grandly situated on a hill above the lake, the main lodge at Prospect Point was designed by William Coulter.

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Nestled among the Adirondack Mountains is the retreat that became the wild playground of the Gilded Age. Now, author Gladys Montgomery illustrates the destination in her new book An Elegant Wilderness.

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In high rustic lodges with dozens of bedrooms, two story

fireplaces, icehouses and boathouses, along shimming lakeshores, the aristocracy of the Gilded Age found a haven in the Adirondacks. Before Paris was coined a “moveable feast” and Las Vegas became “America’s Playground,” the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York punctuated the ideal of the classic summer getaway, a haven of nature and wealth where the industrial rich spent their summers away.

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This page, clockwise from top left: the dining room in Nehasane’s Forest Lodge, 1902; a roofed passage links to the lodge at Bull Point; Lower Ausable Lake, Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1889; the boathouse at Camp Inman, had a casino and four guest bedrooms; ladies hike while their guides carry spruce woven pack baskets; the boat landing at Knollwood. Opposite, clockwise from top left: Pauline Brandreth with guide at Camp Comfort (later Trophy Lodge); roofed walkway at Prospect

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This page, clockwise from top left: at Camp Inman taxidermy was displayed with a sense of kitsch, but the art of displaying of hunting trophies was a hallmark Adirondack tradition; walkway and buildings rimmed Upper Saranac Lake at Eagle Island, the Adirondack residence of New York govenor Levi Morton; a view of Kamp Kill Kare boathouse, circa 1920, during the Garvans’ ownership.

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Opposite: guests on a canoe at the Sagamore; inset, the book cover.

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hunting, hiking, and played tennis. “While the wealthy reveled in the Adirondacks’ scenic wilderness and its recreational pastimes, they weren’t really ‘roughing it,’” writes Montgomery. “For the most part, theirs was an elegant wilderness.”

In her 1923 book on etiquette, Emily Post devoted an entire chapter to an Adirondack house party. “‘Roughing it’ in the fashionable world,” she wrote, “is rather suggestive of the dairymaid playing of Marie Antoinette; the ‘rough’ part being mostly ‘picturesque effect’ with little taste for actual discomfort.”

Among the hills and mountains, buried deep in the forests, they found an aesthetic of wilderness and rusticity that came to define the romantic American image of the great outdoors.

“Rusticity—to a large degree— was defined and redefined in the Adirondacks,” writes Caroline M. Welsh in her foreword for An Elegant Wilderness.

Welsh, an art historian and director of the Adirondack Museum, explains that “the American expression of rustic had, at its core, notions of wilderness as untamed and uninhabited nature, a concept of wilderness that was really an imaginative creation.” u

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of luxury and leisure in the Adirondacks. With archival photographs never before published, the mountains are illuminated as the luxury retreat they were—and still are.

As the economy boomed in 19thcentury America, newly made tycoons and magnates from New York City sought their summer vacations, and in the idyllic Adirondacks they found them. They arrived to their rustic lodges in private Pullman cars, with chefs from the city’s premier restaurants, retinues of servants, tennis and singing coaches, chauffeurs and secretaries, and cadres of famous guests. Unlike other upscale resorts, the Adirondacks offered a reprieve from the constricting social customs felt by so many of the wealthy urbanites.

The great camps and lodges of the Adirondacks accommodated the likes of Daniel Guggenheim, Lucy Carnegie, Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt, financiers J. P. Morgan and Otto Kahn, philosopher William James, railroad owner Collis P. Huntington, and New York governor Levi Morton.

Enthralled with the idea of “roughing it,” they went fishing,

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bidding for mustangs By anne vincent

RENO? NEVADA? wild mustangs? in a prison?

At first it all sounded a bit surreal, but as my friend Matthew explained it to me, I found myself excited about the bi-annual mustang auction at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.

To backtrack, my friend Matthew Rhys, the Welsh actor living in Los Angeles, had rediscovered the joy of horseback riding while working on Patagonia, his book and film of the same title.

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For congested Los Angeles, horseback riding might not seem like the easiest sport to take up, but in fact, the stables under the Hollywood Sign in Beachwood Canyon offer wonderful spaces for horse boarders. And, through some friends who already had horses at the stables, Matthew found himself bitten by the bug.

Last year, while I was in Los Angeles from New York, Matthew and I sat over drinks in the elegant Sunset Tower. He

Opposite page: Potential bidders view the mustangs for sale.

This page, clockwise from top: Nevada mountains; Matthew Rhys peruses the auction hopefuls; the author, Anne Vincent,

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a mixture of regular locals, some newcomers, and several out-oftowners. The atmosphere was jovial and social, and as the auction got underway, we realized that our picks were probably going to be the more popular ones. Sonny Jim, a 15.3-hands high black mustang ridden and trained by Thomas Smiddle (who has since left the institution and is currently pursuing a career in horse training), came up first. He seemed quiet and well-mannered, and we watched him work the corral in all gaits before backing up to have his saddle taken on and off. When the bidding started, I found myself fascinated by the auctioneer—by how fast he spoke and how he had to notice all the hands going up. Then This page, clockwise from top left: The sign announcing the horse adoption on the highway; Matthew Rhys bids on a horse while Anne Vincent and Clare Staples watch on; prisoner Thomas Smiddle, who trained both Sonny Jim and War Bonnet; some of the donkeys (or burros) that were also for sale during the auction. Opposite page, clockwise from top left: A close-up of trainer Thomas Smiddle’s hands; a board listing the names of the horses for sale; Clare gets close with one of the horses for sale, petting him through the rails; Matthew gets to know more about the horses and the prison programs with one of the prison trainers; War Bonnet’s saddle cloth; a prisoner shows off his horse’s moves while riding in the pen.

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explained that several horses at the stables had been purchased from the Saddle Horse Training Program, a cooperative venture that’s coordinated by the Nevada Department of Corrections.

As a privilege for good behavior, inmates in this low-risk facility are allowed to train wild mustangs that are brought in from the mountains. Prisoners have three months to break them in and ride them to a satisfactory level, at which point they’re ready for sale in one of the two auctions that take place each year. And now Matthew and his friend Clare Staples, his riding partner who already kept a mustang in the Beachwood stables, were going to Reno in February for the first auction of the year. “Come with us,” he said. “It will be an adventure!”

So there we ended up one brilliant blue-sky morning, driving at rapid speeds through the stunning snow-capped mountains of Reno, heading south to Carson City. After signing in—IDs checked, security cleared, paperwork approved—we were ready to view the horses. In a corral, eighteen horses were being ridden by the prisoners who had trained them. Though we weren’t allowed to ride them for ourselves, we could watch them show off their moves, pat them, and chat with the prisoners about them. All in all, we got a sense of them and how they handled.

The auction is open to the general public, which seemed to be

This page: Sonny Jim and War Bonnet make their arrival in Los Angeles; the author laughing with the horses in their new home. Opposite page: Signs

be moving back to Los Angeles with Matthew and Clare!

When we all walked back to the holding pens behind the auction ring, we chatted with Thomas and some other inmates.

We learned that many of these men had never ridden a horse before their experience in the program, and it made me wonder: Who was training whom, the men breaking in the horses or the wild mustangs influencing their trainers? One of prisoners told us how the experience taught him about patience. “You don’t get anywhere with the horses without patience,” he said.

Since Nevada, I’ve made several trips to Los Angeles, and it’s clear that the horses love their new home. They enjoy daily rides by the Hollywood Sign and to the Hollywood Observatory. On my last trip, Sonny Jim and Bonnet were looking sleek and fit.

Sure-footedly, they trotted and cantered up the trails, clearly having fun on our ride up to Mount Hollywood. With the sun going down before us, I dawdled behind for a bit to take in the views as Matthew took off before me. Soon, my horse and Matthew’s were neighing and whinnying. It was clear that even though they’re at home in Hollywood, Sonny Jim and Bonnet still suffer a little separation anxiety—from each other. These two are definitely related and happy to be together, and what an unusual experience it’s been to be a part of. u

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suddenly he was pointing in our direction. One minute, Matthew was bidding; the next, he was the proud owner of Sonny Jim. We all laughed at the thrill of it.

“That was really exciting,” Matthew said.

When we walked over to see Sonny Jim, Thomas told us how happy he was to see him go to a good home, but still he seemed a little sad. In chatting with Thomas, we discovered that, in addition to Sonny Jim, he had trained Sonny Jim’s brother, War Bonnet—and that he hated to see them split apart.

At that, Matthew and Clare huddled, and a plan was hatched.

War Bonnet came into the ring, and again Thomas’s aptitude for training was on full display—the horse handled beautifully.

Hands flew up, bids were raised, and suddenly we were in the mix again. Before we knew it, not only one but two horses would

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french poet Charles Baudelaire wrote: “There, all is harmony and beauty, luxury, calm, and delight.” Such is the sum of a visit to Hotel Il Pellicano in the coastal Tuscan village of Porto Ercole, in Argentario. In Hotel Il Pellicano (Rizzoli), the armchair traveler takes a historical journey to this still untouched paradise through the lenses of three noted photographers. First, John Swope captures the ground-breaking and opening days of the hotel in the early ’60s. Then, in pictures by Slim Aarons, the hotel

bursts to life with photos of the Borgehese, Corsini, Pucci, and Pignatelli clans as guests. Finally, Juergan Teller’s party pictures of Coco Brandolini, Margherita Missoni, Andrea Casiraghi, and friends complete the glamorous visit to this unique corner of the world. Che bella vacanza! What a beautiful holiday! u John Swope photographed the beginning of Hotel Il Pellicano from 1964 to 1971. Opposite: owners Michael and Patsy Graham. Above: the hotel J U LY 2 0 1 1 1 0 3

Juergen Teller’s photography captures life at Il Pellicano today. This photo of Marie-Louise Scio and friends poolside is from a party held at the hotel in June 2009 with many globe-trotting PYTs.

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Love & marriage Last month’s calendar was dotted gloriously with all kinds of happy celebrations: anniversaries, birthdays, and weddings! I have to start with Jamee and Peter Gregory’s wonderful 40th-wedding anniversary dinner party.

The very second I opened the brightly colored orange and shocking pink invitation saying “Love 40 from the Gregory’s,” I called and said, Yes, yes!

We will be there! Now this “Love 40” bit on the invitation we all know did not mean a tennis party, but it sure seemed impossible to believe this adorable duo was celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary! All I can say is they sure are doing something right as they both look Jack Benny’s age—39 years old! The buzz all night long was “just cannot believe it has been 40 years!” The dinner was great fun from start to finish with mariachis serenading the room filled with dear friends and family. As they greeted their guests, Jamee looked like a “deb” in her short Oscar de La Renta dress with flowered appliqué white with a touch of black and a waistline that could rival Scarlett O’Hara, and Peter was his debonair, slim-and-trim self in a perfectly tailored dark suit and impeccable Hermès tie.

After just the right amount of time (45 minutes for cocktails), the dinner of scrumptious asparagus vinaigrette with Zoe Haydock married Daniel Millen on June 11.

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Clockwise from top left: Zoe Haydock’s “Griffey” leads the wedding procession; the columnist with Tommy Bancroft and the mayor at the Gregory anniversary party; Zoe walking down the aisle with her parents; the charming ring bearer and flower girl; the Gregorys.

crab, chicken paillard with mustard sauce, roasted potatoes with rosemary baby vegatables, and a parade of dazzling Baked Alaska with sparklers— perfection! Amongst the pals toasting this wonderful pair were Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Diana Taylor, Deborah Norville and Karl Wellner, Lauren and John Veronis, John Mashek, Barbara and Tom Bancroft, Karen and Richard LeFrak, Shirin von Wulffen and Frédéric Fekkai, Evelyn Lauder, Julian Robertson, Frances Beatty and Allen Adler, Julia and David Koch, Daisy Soros, Alexis Gregory, Tom Quick, Francesca and Richard Nye, Adrienne and Gianluigi Vittadini, Muffie Potter Aston, Gigi and Harry Benson, Mario Buatta, Grace and Chris Meigher, Nancy and Joe Missett, Darcy and George Gould, Ginny and Freddie Melhado, and lots more.

Another wonderful celebration was the birthday dinner that Cornelia Bregman gave for her husband, Marty.

You all know that Cornelia was formerly Cornelia Sharpe, the beauteous actress who appeared in Serpico and more, and Marty is the famed movie producer with such hits as Scarface, Serpico, Dog Day

Afternoon, Sea of Love, Carlito’s Way, and more on his glamorous résumé.

To celebrate his birthday, we dined at one long table at the legendary Le Cirque restaurant—such a festive spot!

The heavenly dinner started with fresh white delectable asparagus, a choice of poulet au gingembre or salmon filet and scrumptious île flottante. I thought I would faint when I saw I was seated next to Al Pacino! Amongst the guests were Deborah Norville and Karl Wellner, Wilbur Ross, Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola, Michael Bregman, Marissa Bregman, Yanna and Stanley Rumbough, Catherine and Fred Adler, Francine LeFrak and Rick Freiberg, Nizza and John Heyman, Catherine Johnson, Steve Elkman, and more.

Nothing is more romantic than an old-fashioned society wedding in a garden with a quartet as background music. On June 11th, beautiful Zoe Morgan Haydock married John Daniel Chauncey Millen at the bride’s mother’s enchanting country house in charming Katonah, New York. It had rained all day but miraculously stopped just in time for the wedding performed by

Reverend Terence Elsberry under a canopy of trees. The bridal procession started with Zoe’s French bulldog “Griffey” leading with a flower-covered collar and leash by Alex Jaffe, then came the bridesmaids in one-shoulder lavender dresses by Amsale, enchanting ring bearers and flower girls and finally the beautiful bride in strapless Oscar de La Renta on the arm of both her father, Dr. Tim Haydock, and mother, Averil Payson Meyer. Averil wore one of her late mother Sandra Payson’s beautiful silk flowered dresses by Sybil Connelly. After the al fresco ceremony and then cocktails, we moved into a white tent with dark green tablecloths with luscious centerpieces of white peonies, pale pink roses, freesia, and more flowers by Cecily F. Grande. We sat down to a scrumptious dinner and then danced the night away to Hank Lane Music’s Erik Marshall Band. The orchestra got everyone right onto the dance floor, including Joan Curci, Eliza and Blair Meyer, Scarlett and Bill Robertson, John and Anne Pyne, Walter Terry, Dede and Laddy Merck, Becky and Luic de Kertanguy, Whitney Tower, Anna and Bo Polk, and more. u J U LY 2 0 1 1 1 0 7

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THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST From Le Bain at the Standard Hotel to the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic at Governors Island, our columnist spends the summer months outdoors as she navigates New York City nightlife with the members of the younger set.

by Elizabeth quinn Brown Sarah Howard, Byrdie Bell, and Minnie Mortimer at SCOOP for the Coalition for the Homeless.

Popcorn on the roof

Champagne being served at the kick-off of

of the Standard on June 5.

the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic.

Cator Sparks and Aaron Hicklin at the Ruffino preview at Gemma in the Bowery Hotel on May 14.

Naomi Watts, Hugh Jackman, and Isla Fisher at the Standard Hotel.

The scene at the Standard Hotel for the kickoff for the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic.

Euan Rellie and Lucy Sykes at the party for the Coalition for the Homeless at SCOOP.

Nacho Figueras played in the Veuve Clicquot Polo

David Rocco and Kelly Bensimon at a preview

Classic at Governors Island on June 5.

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“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young

summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade,” said Gertrude Jekyll. Though I tend to favor the fall, it’s true that this summer is off to a sensational start ...

On May 4, I was chauffered in the afternoon to Gemma at the Bowery Hotel ... on the back of a Vespa! There, I celebrated the launch of Ruffino’s prosecco together with New York City’s tastemakers, like Cator Sparks. The bubbly was molto bene, and I departed in good spirits. That evening, Columbia Records and DeLeón Tequila presented a performance by Peter Bjorn and

John as part of its “Locked” concert series. Fans like Frederika Tompkins and Lindsay Torpey-Cross crowded into the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel, partying until after midnight.

Not too shabby for a Wednesday ...

On the 17th, Caroline Smith and I attended a screening of Midnight in Paris hosted by the Cinema Society and Thierry Mugler. I’m not really sure how familiar Mary-Kate Olsen is with F. Scott Fitzgerald or Ernest Hemingway, but she seemed to enjoy the film as much as the rest of the audience, which featured Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti. Then, it was off to the after-party at the SoHo Grand with Tripp Potter before J U LY 2 0 1 1 1 0 9

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meeting Carver Diserens and Alana Tabacco at the 13th Step.

A couple of days later, Milly opened its boutique on Madison Avenue with an event benefitting the Central Park Conservancy program. After attempting to navigate a sea of Spring 2011, I walked to the Prada store with Anisha Lakhani and Emma Snowdon-Jones for a reception celebrating New Yorkers for Children’s fall gala. I did a lap before committing to a location which, of course, was next to a pair of patent leather platform shoes. After spotting Allison Aston and Flo Fulton, I left to go to SCOOP where Peter Davis and Minnie Mortimer were hosting an event to benefit the Coalition for the Homeless.

On the 23rd, the Cinema Society and Bing hosted a screening of The Hangover Part II where I snagged seats in front of Sean Avery and Henrik Lundqvist. The after-party was at the top of the Standard Hotel, where people drank lots of alcohol, you know, to honor of the movie and everything ...

From left, Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips, who directed The Hangover Part II; Russell Simmons and Angela Martini at the Cinema Society screening.

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ing of Milly on Madison Avenue on May 19.

A couple of days later, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children hosted “Empire State of Mind” at the Empire Room at the Empire State Building.

The evening was the organization’s most successful spring event to date, raising $20,000 to support a variety of programs designed to address abuse in New York City.

On June 4, I visited the rooftop of Le Bain at the Standard Hotel to celebrate the kick-off of the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, which took place at Governors Island on the 5th.

Is there anything better than a glass of champagne with a view? Of course, by view, I mean Nacho Figueras, although I didn't mind the sunset.

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Anisha Lakhani and Michelle Smith at the open-

Richard Chai and Phillip Lim at a Peter

Bill Kelly and Page Leidy at the

Bjorn and John concert on May 4.

Empire Room at the Empire State Building on May 26.

Fabian Kolmel, Bryan Boy, and Kyle Anderson at a party for New Yorkers for Children on May 19.

Peter Bjorn and John performed a concert at the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel on May 4.

Chris Lentz and Tatiana Perkin supported New Yorkers for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Tennessee Thomas and Nora Zehetner at the after-party for the Cinema Society screening of Midnight in Paris.

Emma Snowdon-Jones with Anisha Lakhani’s Luigi Maestro at Prada on May 19.

Brent Hocking and Erin Heatherton at “Locked,” hosted

Maggie Norris and Alexa Winner at the

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New Yorkers for Children cocktail party.

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SNAPSHOT Linda Scott’s six-story sculpture “Stargazer” on Route 27; the Big Duck, originally in Riverhead on the Old Montauk Highway, now resides in the town of Flanders.

roadside wonder when stargazer cranes her gentle deer head to eat a leafy

branch next to the road on Route 27, travelers know they have almost arrived the strip of land known as “the Hamptons.”

Created by artist Linda Scott, Stargazer was originally designed as the archway for the offices of the Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) in East Hampton, but due to pressure from the town, the sculpture was moved to Harvey Pollock’s farm on Manorville Road. Stargazer has served as a gateway to summer weekends and vacations since 1991, a beacon of welcome for drivers battling the Long Island Expressway. Once, there was dispute about this public art—and now, 20 years later, Stargazer is beloved by everyone who passes her, even if they don’t know her history. Stargazer’s fate has been uncertain at times—including being the victim of vandals in 1996—but the community rallied to protect this roadside treasure and, today, she is widely supported by notable East Enders.

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To an earlier generation (before there even was the L.I.E.) it was The Big Duck who welcomed them to their summer vacations along Old Montauk Highway. Originally built in 1931 by duck farmer Martin Mauerer in Riverhead, the ferrocement building in the shape of a duck was used (not surprisingly) to help sell duck and eggs; it has been moved to different locations several times. In the early 20th century, eighty percent of ducks grown in the United States came from Long Island and there were more than one hundred duck farms. By 1970, only twenty-five farms were left. The Big Duck has also been threatened and saved as a local landmark (and even added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997). This year is The Big Duck’s 80th Birthday, to which we say a proverbial “Quack, quack.” —Georgina Schaeffer For more information visit lindascott.org and bigduck.org.

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